Django. Is he really Unchained?

Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” is a movie set in the Deep South of the United States just 2 years before the Civil War. The film follows the adventures of a white bounty hunter named Dr. Schultz and a black slave named Django, whom the doctor freed in hopes of aiding with identifying his targets. Throughout the film, there are a staggering 110 uses of the n-word, most of them by white people. This begs the question of why Tarantino, as well as the white actors, do not face more backlash for using a word that’s otherwise considered unusable by non-blacks. Many people defend the cast…